Mmm … Blood Doping
By: Martha | September 11th, 2007
Good news, Milan fans: Ronaldo is due back in Italy very shortly. Woo hoo! There is, however, the small issue of that treatment he received in Brazil, which hasn’t been approved by the Italian Olympic Committee and therefore has him in hot water with The Powers that Be in Italy.
The treatment, which I still don’t understand despite help from both Channel 4 and Marco, involves injecting protein strains from Ronaldo’s own blood directly into the damaged tissue, a cutting-edge procedure which supposedly encourages healing. Quite reasonably, since the treatment is expected to render the Brazilian better, faster, stronger, it’s seen as a form of blood doping by both Luigi Frati, the president of the Olympic Committee. Nothing has been decided for sure yet, but Frati’s doping attack dog Ettore Torri is saying very dark things about the possibility of an investigation when Ronaldo returns to Milan tomorrow, so it’s unlikely this is going to just go away.
Super. Because, you know, the Rossoneri just don’t have enough striker problems as it is. (According to the ever-reliable Corriere dello Sport this morning, Milan are so pissed about this whole fiasco that they’re going to sell Ronaldo and replace him with Freddi Kanoute, Adriano or Nicolas Anelka. Yeah. Don’t hold you breath for that one.)
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